She liked to say that she had no regrets, but if she was afforded a single one it would be that she didn’t have the sense to stay. To find a place far away for the both of them to settle down and raise her daughters. How differently would @Aponi have turned out with someone to love her enough? Would @Nova be so timid? It would seem she had finally managed to break through, if only a little and when he jibed her for being the first to stop she dared to laugh, her head lowering and her tail waving over her back in mock challenge “Oh but I could have run all night!” she even dared a playful charge her teeth clicking on the empty air by his elbow to show she still had energy to burn if he dared to keep going. “They would have never found you and I’d be able to keep you all to myself.” It had been intended as a tease but it ended on a note of sadness. Even now he wasn’t hers. She had to ask.
“Do you know where she went?” she questioned, not daring to breath Nayeli’s name, assuming an extensive search had already been conducted. Any hint of a direction would be enough to either confirm her willing departure or not. The memory of her own abandonment by those she thought she could trust would always be a sore point, no matter how much she tried to convince herself otherwise. Had she even an inkling the woman could be holed up somewhere trying to make her way back to her children, it would eat her up inside until she did something to try and remedy it. Things might be easier if she was out of the way but on this one, even she would try to fight fair.